NZ Botanical Art: A conversation between Catherine Field-Dodgson and Rebecca Rice 🪻

Explore Aotearoa’s rich history of botanical art with the authors of two stunning coffee-table art books from Te Papa Press.

‘FLORA: Celebrating Our Botanical World’ mines Te Papa’s collections to explore and expand upon the way we think about our botanical world and its cultural imprint.

‘Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris’ brings to light one of New Zealand’s most significant botanical artists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Reserve your spot for $5! Each ticket can be redeemed as $5 off any purchases made on the night of the event.

https://schrodingersbooks.co.nz/p/27458847

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Dr Rebecca Rice ('FLORA') is Senior Curator Art at Te Papa. She has a special interest in early botanical art, particularly the relationship between art and science. Recently, Rebecca has been working with her natural history colleagues to research Te Papa’s extensive holdings of material by artist and botanist, Nancy Adams.

Catherine Field-Dodgson ('Groundwork') is the author of a 2003 Master’s thesis that included the first detailed study of Emily Harris’s exhibiting practices. She is currently researching her great-great-grandmother Keita Halbert/Wyllie/Gannon and her connections to Tūranganui-a-Kiwa.

Header image adapted from a painting by Emily Cumming Harris (via Te Papa)

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